Sustainability Report 2011 - Balfour Beatty Rail

Profitable markets
Meeting our customers’ needs
Building our capabilities
During 2011, we continued our efforts to develop further our work
winning approaches through sustainability. We held workshops
in London and Atlanta to share best practice. Our operating
companies have developed core offerings on sustainability for
their customers and have targeted specific bids on which to deliver
excellence in sustainability. Our ability to articulate high quality
sustainability elements in bids has improved, achieving success
at the Olympic Park, Finsbury Park to Alexandra Palace line and
the Snowhill2 office development. We have developed our
capabilities to address the green industries sector (offshore wind,
green building retrofit, energy from waste, biomass and energy
consulting services) (see our Growing our business in the green
economy section).
Awards
Sector leading sustainability performance in civil engineering
The UK Highways Agency has recognised the value of our approach
to sustainability placing us first out of its 21 Tier 1 contractors
during its StART evaluation process in 2011. Balfour Beatty also
received the sustainability award from the Highways Agency for
our corporate sustainability programme and delivery on projects.
Blackfriars station project receives top London award
Our work to redevelop Blackfriars station received the Best
Environmental Performance award of any project in the City
of London and the Chairman’s cup for the best overall project
in the City in 2011.
Our plans for 2012
Demand for knowledge sharing on sustainability is growing in
our businesses. We will continue to share best practice in work
winning for our business development teams. We will hold a
workshop to explore and share best practice in the healthy
communities aspects of work winning and share knowledge
on emerging markets for sustainability goods and services.
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Delivering sustainable communities in the green economy
Sustainability is too big for any one organisation to tackle
on its own. It is a collective responsibility. During the launch
of our 2020 vision film in 2011, we recognised the part
played by our customers. We presented an award to Accord
Group, a long-standing customer of Mansell, our UK-based
social housing and construction business. Accord Group
pioneered the use of Norwegian timber framed solutions
to not only deliver Code 6 Level Sustainable Housing but
also create new employment opportunities at their
West Midlands timber manufacturing plant.
www.accordgroup.org.uk/green
Winning work through sustainability
Zero Carbon Buildings
Our expertise in zero carbon buildings was instrumental in our
joint venture business, Gammon Construction, being awarded
the first zero carbon eco-home and office development in Hong
Kong, due to be completed in 2012. Balfour Beatty Engineering
Services will be refitting 250 M&S stores in the UK with new
LED lighting as part of their Plan A initiative, designed to reduce
lighting power consumption by up to 60%.
More sustainable rail bridge scheme secures
Network Rail contract
The original specification from Network Rail called for the
replacement of a 70-tonne steel bridge on the Finsbury Park
to Alexandra line in London. We proposed an alternative design,
retaining the existing bridge, track and ballast. The tender
was not won on price but on reduced reputational risk, lower
embodied carbon impacts and a dedicated community budget
for the project.
Snowhill2
Snowhill2, a £47m office development in Birmingham, UK
was originally designed to achieve a rating of BREEAM
Excellent. Balfour Beatty rose to the challenge and offered the
far more advanced solution of BREEAM Excellent 2008, with
the option to achieve BREEAM Outstanding. Our commitment
to sustainability excellence was key to winning the work.
Balfour Beatty Chief Operating Officer (COO), Andrew McNaughton
presenting Accord Group with their award
Accord Group, UK
Work winning on the Olympic Park through
social enterprise
Balfour Beatty Workplace successfully pioneered a new social
enterprise model to win the estate management contract for the
London Olympics. In conjunction with specialist regeneration
partners (Groundwork and Renaisi) we will work with the local
community to create new local jobs, new businesses and
volunteering opportunities through a mix of private, public and
charity funding.
US Army and EPA Net-Zero Program
The US Environmental Protection Agency and US Army’s
net-zero program aims to bring the consumption of energy
and water and landfilling of waste to an effective rate of zero
by 2020. Our military housing business, Balfour Beatty
Communities has reduced water use by 65% at Fort Carson,
Colorado though changes to landscaping practices and will
be purchasing 13.2MW of solar power at Fort Bliss in Texas.
For more information go online:
balfourbeatty.com/sustainability
Balfour Beatty Sustainability Report 2011